In the past two months, the Ming Dynasty has changed greatly, and the situation that Emperor Hongzhi barely maintained has been corrupted in an instant.

The root cause is that Zhu Houzhao is more and more ignorant of the government and politics, and he is looking for joy every day.

Liu Jin and other eunuchs are also becoming more and more favored, making it more and more difficult to see Zhu Houzhao.

Several teachers advised him many times, but Zhu Houzhao went further and further.

It can only be said that Zhu Houzhao is a teenager, at this time he is just a fifteen-year-old boy, close to Zhu is red, close to ink is black, and naturally likes these fathers-in-law around him who sing and play with him every day.

I hate these bachelors who preach and instill benevolence and morality every day.

Originally, in the edict of Emperor Hongzhi, there was a will to remove the eunuchs from prison outside the city gates, but Liu Jin began to be depressed two months ago.

He also advised Zhu Houzhao to issue an edict and ask each of the eunuchs who were supervising the army outside to pay a "contract fee" of "ten thousand gold"!

Let the young little emperor realize for the first time that making money is a light thing.

What's more, Liu Jin has already purchased a large number of imperial villages around Jingshi and seized a lot of people's land.

Just a few months ago, the fairly stable stall left by Emperor Hongzhi was made a little miasma by Zhu Houzhao.

It was ten years of lying on the salary and tasting courage, losing to the child loser in January!

Zhang Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Wang Lian, the imperial historian, both wrote to advise, and even launched Li Guanghan and others to write to Zhu Houzhao to explain their absurd behavior and the disasters brought to the north and south of the river.

Zhu Houzhao turned a deaf ear, and even the more the minister admonished him, the more he had to do so, as if he was facing the minister.

Until Yang Yuan, who was in the Qin Heavenly Prison, discovered the "star change" last month, and the celestial phenomena showed that the eunuchs had been punished by heaven.

This celestial admonition directly detonated the contradiction between civil officials and Liu Jin and other eunuchs.

Zhu Houzhao was scared in his heart, feeling that this celestial phenomenon had changed, and it was always a big deal.

However, after stopping for more than ten days, he didn't find any changes in the celestial phenomena, so he didn't even believe in the celestial phenomena!

In the current court, all the ministers are "tired"!

Many courtiers also began to be absent, not only the court meeting, but also the daily work, in a word, that is, the emperor is no longer on the council, and they also rest.

There are even some shameless ministers, led by Jiao Fang, who actually have a faint intention of changing their positions, and they also want to curry favor with Zhu Houzhao in exchange for high-ranking officials.

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Make-up room.

Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, and Liu Jian, together with Yang Tinghe and Fei Hong, are still working diligently.

Yang Tinghe was particularly depressed, doing affairs, running affairs, these days there has been no progress, the only result is to use the small workshop left by Liu Daxia to create more than a dozen arquebuses.

He now wants silver without silver, and he doesn't have support from the emperor.

Even the matter of checking the salt tax almost fell into the hands of the eunuchs of the Imperial Horse Eunuch.

In order to prevent the eunuch from causing trouble, the cabinet had to stop the matter.

So when he saw it, he would take no silver to do the affairs, and the pressure was also on Yang Tinghe's shoulders, who made him turn prematurely and take care of the affairs?

Li Dongyang understood him, and helped the Ministry of Labor to directly recruit a group of craftsmen to avoid the treatment of regular service, so as to win over the outstanding ones.

But everyone knows that this is just a drop in the bucket, and if there is really no money to throw into it, let alone train the new army to make firearms, even a big workshop will not be able to get it.

"The officials at the bottom are getting more and more like this!"

Just when a few people bowed their heads and worked hard, Xie Qian scolded angrily.

"What?" Li Dongyang asked.

"Hmph, what else can I do, Huangzhuang and Huangdian have been gotten to various places now, and some local officials are actually ...... in order to invite merit It turned out that the official school field was given to these eunuchs! Xie Qian said angrily.

"Hey!" Liu Jian sighed and said melancholy: "Although there is a negative emperor, but this official, I want to resign in the coming year!"

"That's exactly what I wanted!" Xie Qian answered.

Li Dongyang waved his hand and said, "Don't say anything frustrating, now...... We still have to help the emperor go another way! The emperor is young, but he was deceived by these eunuchs, so let's advise and advise! ”

Fei Hong looked at the excerpt and said, "I'm afraid that this group of eunuchs will really be relied on by the emperor as a pillar!"

"Heh, what can they do? A group of eunuchs who will only collect money and disturb the people are really making a big mess, see how it ends! Xie Qian said unhappily.

Everyone was silent, if they were so nonsense again, they would definitely go to the collective persuasion, and the emperor would take the burden if he didn't agree.

But in case the emperor is still perfunctory, they really can't hang the seal and leave, after all, this is related to the country, and several of them are ministers who care about their lives.

I really can't just leave Emperor Hongzhi's dying words behind.

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"Joyful, joyful! What a happy event! ”

When it was noon, the head of the household suddenly rushed from outside.

Li Dongyang and the others, who were sad in their hearts, heard the happy news, and hurriedly got up one by one and asked, "Is it the emperor's answer to our advice?"

Wang Cheng waved his hand and said: "No, the emperor is happy to play, how can he have time to watch the fold!"

Several people were immediately deflated, and Li Dongyang looked at Wang Quan and asked, "What a happy event is that?"

"Haha, Darkman! The people really sent the customs tariff silver, totaling more than 387,000 taels! Wang Cheng said with a little excitement.

"What?" Yang Ting and Meng took a step forward: "Did the people really send so much tax silver?"

"Exactly! Haha, all kinds of accounts have also been submitted one by one, saying that we are invited to check! The vehicle transporting the silver is outside the Chengtian Gate at this time! ”

Yang Tinghe was overjoyed: "More than 300,000 taels are here!" This...... That's great! ”

Xie Qian was a little surprised, and muttered: "A few customs, it's only been half a year, there are really so many taxes and silver?" If the port is opened for a few more years, wouldn't this tax silver be able to break one million taels? ”

Li Dongyang thought for a while, got up and said, "Let's go, go and have a look!"

With that, the group came to Chengtianmen, which was not a few steps away from the palace.

From afar, they saw the Tun people, led by the Tun people's foreign minister, Ashin.

When they approached the salute, they found that the people of the household department were removing the seals, weighing them one by one, and verifying the fineness of the silver, while the copper coins were piled aside and counted by a special person.

Li Dongyang also found that the lock of each box was filled with lead by the black people, and it had to be smashed open, and the edge of the box opening was tattooed with circles of circles.

It was clear whether it had been opened or not, and there was a piece of paper on the box with a note indicating who sealed it, the date and location of the seal, and the amount of money in the box.

"The black man is really rigorous!" Li Dongyang sighed secretly in his heart, feeling that if Da Ming cited this set of methods, maybe there would not be so much drifting in this aspect of Cao Yun.

Yang Tinghe was already extremely happy, and he arched his hand towards Ah Xin and said, "The envoy personally escorts the tax silver!" Please also go to Honglu Temple to rest first, and the Japanese official will come to thank you in person! ”

Ashin smiled back and said, "It's easy to say! It's just that the task is on my side, and I have to watch all the boxes unsealed! ”

"I see, your envoy is really meticulous!" Yang Tinghe flattered, he was really happy, with this silver sent by the Huang people, he could do the affairs, and the silver could also be generous. It is to take the silver of the people to come to the master of the long skills to make the silver!

Soon, Xie Qian and the others also finished seeing it, and the expressions on their faces were a little complicated.

The people sent the customs tariff silver, which is the fulfillment of the treaty, which shows that the people really value integrity.

And it was not a perfunctory delivery of silver, it not only strictly controlled, but also sent accounts, so that the Ming Dynasty was well documented.

And the amount of money is somewhat surprising!

They never thought that a few customs could get so much silver, and they only thought that the meaning of this in the Treaty of the Yellow People was stronger.

At this moment, it seems that they are the heart of a villain and the belly of a gentleman.

What complicated them the most was that they had known that this would be the case, so wouldn't it have saved a lot of things by directly opening the Hong Kong and mutual markets, which was still a fart battle at the beginning.

Li Dongyang was silent, looked at it for a while, and then turned to leave.

When he returned to the room, he found that someone had sent an urgent fold.

After he glanced at it, Meng's heart beat rapidly.

Tianjin Customs was burned down? Sending a diplomatic note demanding compensation for the loss of their goods?

That's great! I finally found something to do something about this group of eunuchs!

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